Panchang — Tuesday, 25 April 2028

What Bharani is said to favour

a sharp day: good for the difficult thing, poor for the delicate oneBharani is listed among the sharp asterisms; the chapter reserves them for hard, cutting work — Agni Purāṇa 126.11–16

Suited to what the chapter gives this face: the chapter gives it digging, foundations, medicine, teaching.Bharani is downward-faced — Agni Purāṇa 126.17–28

Where the grahas stood

Sidereal longitudes (Lahiri ayanāṃśa) computed for this date from the JPL ephemeris — the same numbers every other reading here is built on.

What the texts say of Bharani

jalamitrāryamāhīndranakṣatreṣu subhikṣakṛt / sacchastrāvṛṣṭido mūle 'hirbudhnyabhayorbhayam // narp_1,56.73 // śravaṇānilahtārdrābharaṇībhāgyameṣu ca / caratrchaiścaro nṝṇāṃ subhikṣārogyasyakṛt // narp_1,56.74 // mukhe caikaṃ gude dve ca trīṇi ke nayane dvayam /

siṃhe bhinne kujo vṛṣṭirabhinne karkaṭe tathā // narp_1,56.731 // kanyodaye prabhinne cetsarvadā vṛṣṭiruttama / ahirbudhnyaṃ pūrvaśasyaṃ paraśasyā ca revatī // narp_1,56.732 // bharaṇī sarvasasyā ca sarvanāśāya cāśvinī / guroḥ saptamarā tisthaḥ pratyaggo bhṛgujo yadā // narp_1,56.733 //

Bharani nakṣatra — devatā, lord, and every cited source →